Parking light



PARKING IGHT Filed Feb. 12-. 1923 Patented Jan. 26, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

SAM JOHN'S, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PARKING LIGHT.

Application filed February 12, 1923. Serial .No. 618,512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAM J0rm s. a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit,- in the county of Wayne and btate of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Parking Lights, or which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automoblle parking. lights, the object of wh1 ch 1s to provide a parking light in which it is desired to have lights of difierent'colors, alternately fiashin when seen from the rear of the automo ile and a continuous white l1ght to be viewed from the front of the automobile.

Another object is to provide meansfOr automatically operatin this arlnng l1 ht, said means adapted to e attac ed to a c ock that is carried as regular equipment on the instrument board of an automobile.

A further object is to provide means for controlling the electrical circuit to the parking light so that it may be elther closed so as to alternately flash the parking light or can be opened so as to entlrely 1 An automobile a is rovided with an instrument board?) and. enders a. ,A'bracket.

d is carried by the rear fender and is adapted to support the license plate e and the parking light f. I

The parking light 7 conslsts of a casmg g provided with a partition 72. to divlde the interior into two separate compartments 2' and j. The compartments 6 and 7- are covered by glasses of a diiferent color to similarly color the rays of light' passin therethru. As I show in Fig. 1, I provide t e compartment 6 with a glass shaded to represent red and compartment j'with a glass .shaded to represent yellow. The lower portion of the casing 9 1s rovided with 'an o' nin k through whic the light is adapted? to sgine upon the license plate e. The forward end in the casin g is provided with au'opcning m covered y a glass at through whichjthc light is adapted to shine to throw a white light forward. Bulbs oiand 79 are supported within the casing g, one in each compartment z and j respectively,

The light bulb 0 is connected by a wire/- to the spring contact member s. The light bulb p is connected by the wire 27 to the spring contact member 11. The ligh bulbs o ahd are connected through the wire 1: to a switch w, battery w and thence to, ground.

The instrument board b is provided with a clock 1, provided with the usual clock mechanism 2. In the back face of the .clock 1 insert an insulating plug member 3, through which the spring contact arms 8 and u are supported. These contact arms 8 and u are each bent at one end as at 4 and 5 respectively. One of the gears 6 of the clock mechanism 2 having a plurality of spider arms 7, is constant y rot and a are adapted to make and'break the electrlcal circuit to the parking light by intermittently contactin with these spider arms, referred to as t e spaced contacting surfaces.

Referring toFig. 1 'will be seen the'diagrammatic layout of the electrical circuit. The clock mechanism is grounded as at 8: the spring contact members .9 and u are ar ranged to contact with the spider arms 7 01 contacting surfaces of the gear 6 as the said contacting surfaces slide under the bent over contacting portions4 and '5 of the said sprlng contact members. In Fig. 1, the contact member a is contacted with one of the spider arms 7, completing the circuitthrough the wire t and the lamp 1), thence through the switch w, battery :2: andthe ground G. the clock mechanism is also grounded this will complete the electrical circuit.

On further rotation of the gear 6, the spider arm or contacting surface will be caused to. leave the contacting orftion 5 of the contact member 11., thus brea ing the circuit-through the lamp p. Before this circuit-is broken thebent over contacting portion 4 of the spring contact member a is caused to come in contact with the next spider arm or contactin P surface thereby closing the circuit throug the wire 1', lamp ated by the clock mechanism, and the spring contact arms 8' 0, and thence through the switch '10, battery 11-, to ground. The length of the bent over contacting portions 4 and 5 is such that at no time during the operation of the device will both lights be off, since the circuit through one lamp is closed before the circuit through the other lamp is opened.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided a parking light that is elliciently and positively operated by utilizing the clock mechanism that is carried as equipment on the instrument board of an automobile. The construction of the make and break meehanisnris simple and can be easily assembled on to the clock casing. Furthermore this make and break mechanism eliminates the use of an independent motor or the like, as my invention can be co-ordinated with a clock mechanism carried by the automobile as equipment, which I find very suitable, as the moving parts of said clock mechanism are easily accessible.

What I claim is:

1. In a parking light for vehicles, the

combination of illuminating means, a housing for said illuminating means provided with light openings at the front and rear thereof, and means for controlling the beams of light projected from said illuminating means, whereby a ray of one colored light is projected forwardly from the housing and alternate lights of different colors are continuously and intermittently projected rcarwardly from said housing.

2. In a parking light for vehicles, the combination of a housing divided into two compartments, illuminating means in each compartment, the said compartments provided with light openings at' the forward and rear-ends thereof, the rear openings each covered with a transparent covering cut-l1 being of a different color, the forward openings covered with a transparent covering of the same color and means for controlling the said illuminating means for intermittently lighting the separate illuminating means in each compartment, said controlling means arranged to alternately actuate the separate illuminating means for the purpose of projecting different colored lights from the rear of the housing and a ray of one colored light forwardly of the housing.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

SAM JOHNS. 

